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the carolina watchman vol x third series salisbury n c march 6 1879 no 20 a mother's prayer i.i ka rilauink s ( ol.llf i olllc i thee to llight with heart bowed ibuwu with weight of anxious care j nrt'ei up my fervent earnest prayer thai i lion would give mi light t'lmul ml.v weary soul i|iÂ«>av bin deli rents to guide hie feet 11 ood in tin way aud make them meet l',,r all their earthly strife ip.w can i ever prove thst 1 am worthy of the kacied trust ? jlov iiom the lea i oppress me that j must ];<â– faitltlcsn iu m hive i lie dreary way - ji m-i thai leadeth down lo death all d hell . nf lust souls is sung he funeral knell little feet should stray how coilhl i i war ihe pain how hear to realize thai prayers and tears i a tell ful care ot days months aud \ eat s had all ihxmi but in vain ! i i i'-i her luit from thee llir f-race to help me do mv work aright l,i good to nurture and he ill to light fan come to strengthen lue help me to train aright i'licm souls whom thou hast given to my care come to thee my father with this ruyer loin out my heart to night uhi n hen tin earthly life ihith ciideil with it toil ami weariness ii-il.i - aud \ i ai sol dai kuessuiid distress li aud of sti ile ihiv tiie little feet wliicli 1 have guided in ihe blessed way i hat lr;.iliili to i lie pertert endless day to tread i li com is be meet and in llial belter laud where till tire g*ttiiered who have foi low ed i willi hue and steadfast steps oh may ive in still an unbroken baud assuming the position of the most po tent intliienees iu directing and control ling legislation in the interest of money kings as against the bone and sinew of the hind aud even now wc know or be lieve that railroad corporations by pow erful combinations are exerting an in fluencc upon tho congress of the united st.ites as well as here in north carolina which must be hurtful to the masses of the people i'i the friends of the bill iu their zeal ous support of this measure used the very plausible but in our opinion fallacious argument that it was honest and right to make the appropriation this bill calls for to save the private stock-holders three hundred thousand dollars nomi nally but really eighteen thousand dol lars because tiie patriotic stock holders ba.ed to the state eleven hundred thou sand dollars really sixty.-slx thousand dollars in view of all these recited facts the state appropriates two bundled thousand dollars to save sixty-six thousand with a railroad contingency of eleven hundred thousand dollars in the remote future well might this good old commonwealth : we do dearly love exclaim god save j us from such friends the undersigned believe that this bill i will be injurious to the interests of the state they believe that increased taxa \ lion upon m already complaining people must necessarily follow and they know the masses of our citizens are poor and uliabled to pay greatly increased taxes heme they respectfully ask lo enter this protest against the passage of this bill and at the saint time disclaim all iuteli i tion io wound tin feelings of nuy oue who ', lias differed with us to the wisdom of this measure j m i'khwisi k a movk geo a guaiiam e e li us gko williamson 1 p dii.i.vun j.vs t 1'i.si-ass protest of k toil williamson axi oti1kus to i assai'k oi rilk lill.i i'll il i l.i n i 111 i'.vi'k i kaij ami 1 adk1n >. i.i kt k lll.l'l ia1 i i ml \ n v sii hll 1 i'ilolmma â€¢ â€¢ ! ilkukl uk i ia iiiidersigned respectfully protest ngaiiiri the passage ol house hill no 307 .-. i im i.iii n.i : .-. kutiiled tin art t.i change the name mill mill ii i,v the consolidation oi i he western kail road company and to com plvti saiil road isl bi our opinion the preamble to ihe hill i deceptive and well calciihiteil to mislead tis to its lull meaning i recites " i i the stock lias lueli preserved by tiie set ion of the president and directors ul the company at heavy expense and ki ii.i.tij responsibility mark yon not pecuniary loss ti them without expense inclined by the state we with our limited knowledge frank ly admit the state had suffered no detii tueut before the passage of the bill but after its passage we do aver that a plain btatciueiit of accounts show as follows : state interest iu vail road 1,100,000 approximate and full value hi markets 6*6,000 aitiail-iu.'.tiuns tm)|-.i the bill direct appropriation 50,000 ki'ieiise of convicts clothing and feed 7.")ii foi 1878 78,000 expense " " 1880 78,0011 total of direct and indirect appropriations 200,000 2d the bill or law accomplishes and perfects a departure from well establish ed rule iu political economy and is a bold innovation on well settled princi ples in the financial world it compels the state to give two hun dred thousand dollars of good money to bare sixt m thousand of bad with a probable contingency that in the future in tna realize eleven hundred thousand dollars i while it is claimed by the friends of the bill that this appropriation is and kuouhl he made to save the interest ofthe state in the mad it in effect amounts to a gift of two hundred thousand dollars hal it is proposed to im mediately mort gage the road for four hundred thousand dollars which being accomplished at once the whole projierty is at the mercy i tin mortgage bund-holder who will in n short time inevitably own the whole road uiile.-s the mate in her generosity c es forward and by increased taxation use it at a sacrifice of probably one million dollars ith we regard such legislation as this iii perfects as directly in the interest "! railroad monopolies and combinations and in conflict with the material good of i state and iu view of the fact that our hi/ens ire uow burdened with taxation if tailoring under a debt which all men de-it i to be adjusted and all iutclligent men know that the dearly beloved old stale of north carolina is trembling and cowering on the very brink of the abyss that leads to ropiidia il i and dishonor we do not think it **"'â€¢â– *< or statesmanlike to make any li'ioprialious other lhan those the con ituiion and laws ofthe state make im perative 5 wc ate aw tiie of nud deprecate the fuel that the railroad corporation in the tinted siatis as iu europe aievaircly 1 till western north carolina â€¢ railroad what ii uasribl am will cost the tax-i'a vkiss correspondence of the kalel^b news llol'sk ol rltlmtkskxtativf.s } italeigh feb 25th \ in your issue of th 24lli we were shown what the vestem north carolina railroad costs the tax-payers per annum and wli.it proportion of this is paid by s-mie ofthe cismontonc cotimies in this | i propose to show by your permission ; at approximation of tin total cost of the i im.ui thus far and what proportion of ihe annual taxes paid by the state is paid by the transition tune couirties the following will show some ofthe expenditures to %\ it : roods issued uiuler torts of the general assembly prior to l.e war 4,000,000 1 nil-rest paid on same 200,000 roads issued for pin chase of road iu ih when sold un der mortgage 850,000 interest paid on same to jan uary 1st 1s 178,500 raid for iron iu 1676 hy gov vance under act of feb 19th 1877 7."i.(mi(l feeding clothing guarding &!â€¢., convicts in is and 1-7s 73,950 earnings ofthe road expended on this work foi 20 months iu 1s77-7s 4<),(mh 4,417,450 ry reference to soetion 1 chapter i0g laws of id - -'?, it will he ise-en that the general assembly very generously gace to the stockholders other than the state one-fourth of the load for which the state issued honds to the amount of 850,000 and which are now a first mortgage on the three-fourths which was not unfortunate ly giren a wag also the state now claims three-fourths of the western north carolina railroad which has been completed about 1*20 miles ami a good part of which is nearly worn out costing the state about 37,000 per mile the annual cost to the state is about as follows to wit : interest on 850,000 59,500 feeding c convicts 55,000 annual appropriation 70,000 annual earnings 4,000 208,500 leaving out the earnings of the road we have au actual expenditure of 184 500 per annum ; more than one-third of the entire state taxes of this amount the trtiiisinoiitane counties including mcdowell and rurke pay as follows to wit : runcomhe 2,vj00 madison tioo jackson 400 swain 250 macon 650 haywood 750 graham 150 clay 200 cherokee 700 henderson 1.000 transylvania 500 mcdowell 600 v a i icy 300 rurke 950 9,250 wake county alone pays more for this road than the fourteen counties named above meckleiibuig and new hanover pay more than 84,000 more than the fourteen counties above named edge combe and halifax pay s400 more wayne granville and pitt pay j-'j.ouo more for further information study the auditor's report etio the remedy the remedy for the evils com plained of lÂ».v the people is plain and easy of com ' pii-heiisioii li-t tin legislature repeal tiie appro : priatioii to pay bond-holders interest i anil bu iron for the western north car ! olina railroad let it repeal the 850,000 subsidy passed this session in a minority vote in each house to the coalfields railroad lee it then pass an act like those pre vailing in georgia tennessee and other states to farm out the convicts to the ! highest bidder the result of these three bills would i be to save 300,000 of the taxes annually ! the news has heretofore given the ur ines as many or more miles of railroad would be lutilt by them annually than under the present expensive system j the boiiil-hohiers of the western north i carolina railroad would then go ahead , and build their own road to make their | bonds good add to this 300,000 the 95,000 that ' il is estimated would be saved by the : salaries nud pees bill the deaf aud : dumb aud the penitentiary bills and the j 5,000 already saved in reducing the ! price of public printing and the nett saving will be 400,000 annually beiug over 25 cents on the 100 by disregarding railroad mortgage boud-liolders and their agents and official ! lobbying this real retrenchment aud reform is easy the legislature would thtias earn for themselves an eternal record of honorable mention on the pages of our state's his tory will they do ic ?- raleigh news consistency there are those who assert that to pay 100,000 of interest on a compromise ef fected of 27,000,000 of honest state debt for 4,000,000 will throw the state back into radical hands over 3,500,000 ofthe debt to be com promised were issued to build the wes tern north carolina railroad vet with rare consistency these same legislators insist unit over 200,000 of taxation must be annually levied now tt build the western north carolina railroad for the benefit of its mortgage bond-holders re just and honest before you are gen erous has no place in their rules of ! conduct it would seem that the honor ! of ihe state is less tyith them than the ! interest of the railroad companies it would seem that the chief reason for the existence of population in north carolina is that it may lie taxed for subsidies to railroad corporal ions it would seem that their objection to settling the state debt is really because they fear that enough may not be left iu the treasury for the railroad subsidy â€” raleigh news cod heard him a story of faith and chairty from rus sia : not long since a government func tionary died in st petersburg in utter destitution leaving without friends or rela tives two small children one of whom was a boy about seven years old alone moneyless foodless with his little sister crying lor bread he wrote ou a piece of paper as a hist resort the petition : please god send me three copecks to buy my lit tie sister a roll this he carried to the nearest church to drop it into an alms box and start it ou its way to heaven a passing priest seeing him try to put the paper in the box took it and read it where-upoii he carried the children to his house fed them and clothed them th next sunday he preached a sermon on charity in which he alluded to the incident the collection that followed amounted to ucarly 1,000 paring powders dr henry a mott jr an eminent chemist litis published a report of his analysis of various brands of baking pow ders he also gives the analyse 1 , of prof henry morton president of stevens in stitute of technology ; prof ii w shedler dr stillwellof walz & still well auyalytical chemists â€¢ and prof petrick of missouri the following preparations or brands were analyzed and alum was found in all '* invisible snyder brothers & co cincinnati ; donley's dooley & brother new york ; tatnpsco smith hanway &. co baltimore md ; charm rohrer christian & co st louis andrews renal c i andrews & co milwaukee queen dennett &. sloan new haven conn vienna church & co new york city orient rouse walworth &, co syracuse n y : amazon erskine & erskine louisville ky ; lakeside c (Â». pel line chicago ii twin sis ters union chemical works chicago 111 king white lily jewett il sherman co wis ; monarch richer crombie & co milwaukee wiss ; one spoon 1 taylor manufacturing co st louis mo imperial sprague warner & griswold chicago honest sclioch & wechsler st paul minn econom ical spencer pros & co chicago iii kxcelsior l e taylor chit-ago 111 ; charters thomson & taylor chicago iii ; grant's j c grant philadelphia giant w p mclaughlin chicago 111 ; queen star chemical works chicago " now when it has been declared by eminent medical men that alum as used in these bilking powders is damaging to health ofteu producing a troublesome and dangerous disorder of the system people should cease to use them a jack-o'-the lantern fools anengi keer â€” last saturday irifjtil it will be re numbered was wet and extraordinarily dark between 8 and 9 o'clock the engin eer ofthe shifting engine in the yard ofthe richmond 4 danville railroad in this city was bringing some cars up from the june j tion to the depot he was running his en j gine backwards and when near the carolina ! central crossing saw a red light on the i track waving him down he stopped short like grandfather's clock and presently the light waved him ahead lie followed it | slowly and cautiously and after leading him along about a hundred yards it disap peared as suddenly as it had appeared to him and left everything around as black as before then he realized what it was and brought his cars along into the city sunday morning in shifting at the junc tion some ofthe cars broke loose and four teen bumpers were broken the mishap was instantly ascribed to the evil spirit which hud been seen up the track the night 1 icfore â€” charlotte observer drunken judges â€” if there is an out rage on public decency and a danger of magnitude it is for a judge to go the bench j drunk or under the influence of liquor ' complaint has often been made that the district of columbia has been cursed in that way and a washington correspondent last week speak i as follows ofthe matter the usual scene was presented to-day in the circuit court of this district of attor ney be-fore it charging the judge an ala bama importation by grant of drunkenness the offender is named humphreys and his besetting sin basso grown on him that he is unlit to sit as a judge one or two efforts have been made to have congress take cog nizance of his frailty and he was at one time the subject of investigation but by sonic freak of luck he lias been allowed to remain tin boy orator â€” this phenomenon discoursed again la>t uiglit to a crowd even larger thaa that which greeted him on his first appearance and the auditors were a a general thing pleased with his perform ance lie is ehieliy remarkable for an unu sual development of memory and there is a quaiutness in the contract between the long and abstruce sentences which lie utters and his perfectly childish face which affords a decided attraction a contribution was ta ken up after the performance and quite a nice little sum was raised to help educate the little ti-llow he will give his exibitions at points along the western norh carolina railroad after leaving the city â€” charlotte observer a stroke of paralysis â€” news was re cuived in the city yesterday that mr con s tan tine davidson of this county was sud denly seized with a violent stroke of paraly sis while seated in a chair in his elwelling sunday afternoon the extent of the affec tion had not been definitely learned up to last night but he was reported to be in grc:it danger mr a b davidson and dr j m miller left the city yesterday morning for his bedside and his friends auel relatives are awaiting the result of the physician's examination with painful solici tude â€” charlotte observer i hunt eismarck london feb 2 â€” a detailed report of bismarck's speech in the reichstag in debate on the austro-geriuau treaty of commerce contains the following relative to his commercial policy it is my duty to stick to my convictions that is how i mean to act and if i do not obtain im mediate success i shall try again that is all natchez reing deserted natchez miss is threatened with the fate of vicksburg namely desertion hy thc river the recent rise of the missis sippi river has thrown the tow-head near the louisiana shore and there is now a current running on the louisiana side which threatens to cut away the bar there and throw it upon the mississippi side directly in front of natchez the english language is wonderful for its aptness of expression when a number of men and women get to gether and look at each other from the sides ofa room that's called a socia ble when a hungry crowd calls up on a poor minister and eats him out of house and home that's ca lied ado nation party christian statesmen â€” a r e de voutly thank god for ssch men in the councils of the nation light is break ing o'er us ! hampton lives by the j prayers of god's people â€” colquitt as a layman is preaching the gospel of the son of god from sabbath to sab bath and our own governor has con . secratcd himself to the church of god and recently stood up in this city ! pleading for the spread of the gospel of the son of god let the people pray on let the tide of christianity roll on until it shall sweep dowu all j wickedness in high places until all our rulers shall rule in righteousness aud we shall be a happy people whose god is the lord â€” x c chris tian advocate a queen's conquerer mary queen of scots was confess ed by every one to be the most charm \ ing princess of her time she had a j brilliant complexion dark flashing ! eyes yellow or auburn hair exquisite i hands a fine voice a tall majestic fig j ure she was a great dancer rode well sung sweetly accompanying her self on various instruments spoke several languages and wrote both in j prose and verse by the death of her father james | v she became a queen before she was j a week old she was educated in l france and brought up in the roman catholic religion when nineteen years old she returned to scotland leaving france with great regret and feeling no love for her native country john knox the great scotch re former was thirty-seven years older than mary he was educated at glas gow university became an enthusias tic protestant and preached with tre mendous power only a few days after mary's arri val in scotland she sent for knox to come to the palace where they had a long talk in her brother's presence she accused him of attempting to de stroy her authority over her subjects and using magical arts to cany out his purpose but so completely did his eloquent defence overpower her that she sunk into a silent stupor from which she was aroused by the dinner bell putting an end to the con versation kot long after mary gave a splen did ball iu honor of the success of a brutal massacre in franco on the following sunday knox preached a sermon denouncing the atrocity and the festivities mary was told that he had spoken in a manner calculat ed to bring her under the hatred and contempt of her subjects she sent for him to come to the palace where she received him surrounded by her counselors and maids of honor and administered a long rebuke knox listened quietly and then re peated the whole of what he had said in the pulpit for the only time iu her life mary was compelled to listen to a plain fearless sermon as he left the room one of her attendants was heard to mutter he is not afraid nota great while elapsed before ha was summoned to her presence in loehleven castle for two hours she pleaded with him on behalf of the nationality of her own religious ser vice will ye allow that my subjects shall take my sword in their hands tho sword of justice is god's the reformer answered the queen was very angry but the next day she seut for him again and adopting a plan unlike any she had ever before tried attempted by every art in her power to charm aud faci nate him for my sake was the plea equally unsuccessful there was only one more interview between them she sent for him up on hearing that he censured her mar riage with lord darnley i cannot be quit of ye she cried in a passion of anger aud i vow i will be reveng ed !' she sobbed and wept but knox was as unmoved as before i am sorry to hurt you madam he said but i should be more sorry to hurt my conscience this speech infuriated her and she ordered hi in from the room on the occasion of her marriage with bothwell the supposed murder er of her first husband darnley the nation was wild with indignation some proposed banishment others imprisonment for life knox used his powerful oratory to have her tried on the plain charge of being an accom plice in the murder there is no j doubt that the ii rev eloquence of the great reformer was one ofthe might s . â€¢ . iest agencies in bringing to punish ment the queen whose beauty and whose tears could never swerve him from his honest convictions he died fifteen years before mary's execution ; and it was truly said of him when he was laid to rest iu the old churchyard of st giles edinburg here lies one who never feared the ( face of man the champion gordon and barlow their first meeting at gettysburg and their second at a washington dinner party â€¢ i'r m a waatuagum i-.-tter lou may not be aware that it was gen gordon's command which struck the flank of the eleventh corpse on the afternoon ofthe first day at get tysburg and after a short but despe rate conflict broke its line and swept it from the field in that fight gen barlow of new york commander of the first division fell dangerously and it was thought mortally wound ed he was shot directly through the body two men attempted to bear him through the shower of lead from field but one was instantly killed and gen barlow magnanimously said to the other you ean do me no good save your self if you can gordon's brigade of georgians in its wild charge swept over him ami he was found by gen gordon himself lying with upturned face iu the hot july sun nearly paralyzed and apparently dying gen gordon dismounted from bis horse gave him a drink of water from his canteen and inquired of geu barlow his name and wishes gen barlow said i shall probably live but a short time please take from my breast pocket the packet of my wife's letters aud re-ad one of them to me which was done he then asked that the others be turn up as he did not wish them to fall into other hands this gen gordon then did and then asked can i do anything else for von geueral yes replied gen bar low earnestly my wife is behind our army ; can you send a message through the lines certainly i will said gordon and he did then directing gen barlow to be borne to the shade ofa tree at the rear he rode on with his command the wife received the message and came harmlessly through both lines of battle and found her hus band who eventually recovered since gen gordon's election to the united states senate both ho and gen barlow were invited to a dinner party in washington and occupied opposite seats at the table after in troductions gen gordon said : gen barlow are you related to the officer of your name who was killed at get tysburg i am the man said liar low ; are you related to the gordon who is supposed to have killed me i am the man said gen gordou the hearty greeting which followed the touching story as related to the interested guests of gen barlow and the thrilling effect upon the company ean better be imagined than described a duel in a ball boom â€” two voting men samuel tomlinson and george mcgregor were pie-sent at a ball at cedar hill in the ball room were collected young ladies and gen tlemen of the best society among the dancers was miss burdett who was engaged to marry tomlinson both tomlinson and mcgregor claim ed miss burdett for the next dance and a quarrel arose but mcgregor triumphantly led the lady out on the floor tomlinson drew a pocket knife and attacked his rival as he and the girl were swinging corners mcgre gor also drew his knife and a terrible fight ensued both contestants were badly stabbed miss burdett fainted mcgregor is fatally cut â€” st louis j iobc democrat eliza embebt a young parisian lady resolutely discarded a gentleman to whom she was to have been marri ed becaucse be ridiculed religion having given him a gentle reproof lor some impropriety he replied that a man of the world would not be so old fashioned as lo regard god and religion eliza started but soon re coveriug herslf said from this mo ment as i discover you do not respect religion i cease to be yours â€” lÂ»ec dotes/or the ) ountj the business of taking the census must not be left solely to the radi cals those who steal votes will not hesitate to falsify the census while the grip of the republican party grows fainter and fainter and the hour of complete democratic as cendency draws near the public eied it steadily improves secession talk hints as to wliat oalfornia will do if fee c'ulneso dont go it is stated that the san francisco daily stock report the oldest finan cial paper on the pacific coast in urg | ing thata monster mass meeting bo held j in san francisco to demand of hayes : that he sign the chinese bill uses the following extraordinary language : this is a most critical time in the history of california whether there is to be bloodshed and anarchy in our fair state jpiot incendiarism aud i murder â€¢ whether our green fields are . to be blackened and our garden spot laid waste or whether rather than i incur these great evils wc shall calm ! ly in the end all other resorts haviug , failed meet and sever our connection j with the national confederation mak ing laws for our preservation and tho i preservation of our children's heri tage the events ofthe next two days may determine already such a dreadful possibility as secession from the union in the event of our failure to obtain the relief we demand from the chinese evil is broadly talked of in high circles the fast has utterly failed to understand our situation and to extend the aid and sysmpathy we have the right to expect from the sisterhood of states leading men say that we have pleaded have ex hausted arguments have cried aloud for relief but our most earnest ap peals have been treated with indignity land our sufferings have been a mock ery as a last resort wc may take advantage of the geographical lines that surround us the vast extent of soil within our boundaries the ex haustless resources of wealth that are otirs and will set up an occidental republic which if it cannot rival the old republic in its glory ofthe past will at least be a magnificent empire of white freemen whose heritage shall be preserved to their children aud their children's children forever our boys teach them self reli ance teach them to make fires teach them how to saw and split wood teach them every day dry hard practical common sense teach them how to darn stockings teach them how to eat what is set before them and be thankful ; teach them how to black their boots and take proper care of their clothing teach them how to ay no and mean it and yes and stick to it teach them to wear their working clothes like kings teach them that steady habits are better than riotous living teach them that the further one goes beyond his income the nearer he gets to the poor house ; teach them not to have anything to do with intemperate and dissolute voting men or with idle or frivolous young men don't do it â€” your enemy is at your feet and it is in your power to crush him 1 dont do it ! better is an ounce of forgiveness than a thousand tons of vengeance if hardness and . bitterness still linger in vour heart â€” * ! if actual and deep wrongs have been inflicted upon you go and look in the nearest open grave â€” you will not have to go far â€” and see what is the end for your enemy and for you go and think for a moment beside the nearest gravestone how little worthy it its for an immortal soul to l>e cher ishing the passions ofa wolf or tiger and then forgive your enemy even as you need to be forgiven ! do you know that i think mrs g a very mean woman '.'" aid mrs smith the other day that's pre cisely the opinion i heard her express of you re-joined her friend the most common error of men and women is that of looking for happi ness outside of useful work it has . never yet been found when thus sought and never will be while the world stands robt lewe who is one of the finest classical scholars in england pro nounces in favor of the study of tiie modern languages instead of the an cient when chinaman makes love to a white n-irl he doesn't rave about how his ! heart pants for her etc no he sin ' ply tells her he loves her better than j he does rat and r-hc believes him

the carolina watchman vol x third series salisbury n c march 6 1879 no 20 a mother's prayer i.i ka rilauink s ( ol.llf i olllc i thee to llight with heart bowed ibuwu with weight of anxious care j nrt'ei up my fervent earnest prayer thai i lion would give mi light t'lmul ml.v weary soul i|iÂ«>av bin deli rents to guide hie feet 11 ood in tin way aud make them meet l',,r all their earthly strife ip.w can i ever prove thst 1 am worthy of the kacied trust ? jlov iiom the lea i oppress me that j must ];. i.i kt k lll.l'l ia1 i i ml \ n v sii hll 1 i'ilolmma â€¢ â€¢ ! ilkukl uk i ia iiiidersigned respectfully protest ngaiiiri the passage ol house hill no 307 .-. i im i.iii n.i : .-. kutiiled tin art t.i change the name mill mill ii i,v the consolidation oi i he western kail road company and to com plvti saiil road isl bi our opinion the preamble to ihe hill i deceptive and well calciihiteil to mislead tis to its lull meaning i recites " i i the stock lias lueli preserved by tiie set ion of the president and directors ul the company at heavy expense and ki ii.i.tij responsibility mark yon not pecuniary loss ti them without expense inclined by the state we with our limited knowledge frank ly admit the state had suffered no detii tueut before the passage of the bill but after its passage we do aver that a plain btatciueiit of accounts show as follows : state interest iu vail road 1,100,000 approximate and full value hi markets 6*6,000 aitiail-iu.'.tiuns tm)|-.i the bill direct appropriation 50,000 ki'ieiise of convicts clothing and feed 7.")ii foi 1878 78,000 expense " " 1880 78,0011 total of direct and indirect appropriations 200,000 2d the bill or law accomplishes and perfects a departure from well establish ed rule iu political economy and is a bold innovation on well settled princi ples in the financial world it compels the state to give two hun dred thousand dollars of good money to bare sixt m thousand of bad with a probable contingency that in the future in tna realize eleven hundred thousand dollars i while it is claimed by the friends of the bill that this appropriation is and kuouhl he made to save the interest ofthe state in the mad it in effect amounts to a gift of two hundred thousand dollars hal it is proposed to im mediately mort gage the road for four hundred thousand dollars which being accomplished at once the whole projierty is at the mercy i tin mortgage bund-holder who will in n short time inevitably own the whole road uiile.-s the mate in her generosity c es forward and by increased taxation use it at a sacrifice of probably one million dollars ith we regard such legislation as this iii perfects as directly in the interest "! railroad monopolies and combinations and in conflict with the material good of i state and iu view of the fact that our hi/ens ire uow burdened with taxation if tailoring under a debt which all men de-it i to be adjusted and all iutclligent men know that the dearly beloved old stale of north carolina is trembling and cowering on the very brink of the abyss that leads to ropiidia il i and dishonor we do not think it **"'â€¢â– *< or statesmanlike to make any li'ioprialious other lhan those the con ituiion and laws ofthe state make im perative 5 wc ate aw tiie of nud deprecate the fuel that the railroad corporation in the tinted siatis as iu europe aievaircly 1 till western north carolina â€¢ railroad what ii uasribl am will cost the tax-i'a vkiss correspondence of the kalel^b news llol'sk ol rltlmtkskxtativf.s } italeigh feb 25th \ in your issue of th 24lli we were shown what the vestem north carolina railroad costs the tax-payers per annum and wli.it proportion of this is paid by s-mie ofthe cismontonc cotimies in this | i propose to show by your permission ; at approximation of tin total cost of the i im.ui thus far and what proportion of ihe annual taxes paid by the state is paid by the transition tune couirties the following will show some ofthe expenditures to %\ it : roods issued uiuler torts of the general assembly prior to l.e war 4,000,000 1 nil-rest paid on same 200,000 roads issued for pin chase of road iu ih when sold un der mortgage 850,000 interest paid on same to jan uary 1st 1s 178,500 raid for iron iu 1676 hy gov vance under act of feb 19th 1877 7."i.(mi(l feeding clothing guarding &!â€¢., convicts in is and 1-7s 73,950 earnings ofthe road expended on this work foi 20 months iu 1s77-7s 4t uiglit to a crowd even larger thaa that which greeted him on his first appearance and the auditors were a a general thing pleased with his perform ance lie is ehieliy remarkable for an unu sual development of memory and there is a quaiutness in the contract between the long and abstruce sentences which lie utters and his perfectly childish face which affords a decided attraction a contribution was ta ken up after the performance and quite a nice little sum was raised to help educate the little ti-llow he will give his exibitions at points along the western norh carolina railroad after leaving the city â€” charlotte observer a stroke of paralysis â€” news was re cuived in the city yesterday that mr con s tan tine davidson of this county was sud denly seized with a violent stroke of paraly sis while seated in a chair in his elwelling sunday afternoon the extent of the affec tion had not been definitely learned up to last night but he was reported to be in grc:it danger mr a b davidson and dr j m miller left the city yesterday morning for his bedside and his friends auel relatives are awaiting the result of the physician's examination with painful solici tude â€” charlotte observer i hunt eismarck london feb 2 â€” a detailed report of bismarck's speech in the reichstag in debate on the austro-geriuau treaty of commerce contains the following relative to his commercial policy it is my duty to stick to my convictions that is how i mean to act and if i do not obtain im mediate success i shall try again that is all natchez reing deserted natchez miss is threatened with the fate of vicksburg namely desertion hy thc river the recent rise of the missis sippi river has thrown the tow-head near the louisiana shore and there is now a current running on the louisiana side which threatens to cut away the bar there and throw it upon the mississippi side directly in front of natchez the english language is wonderful for its aptness of expression when a number of men and women get to gether and look at each other from the sides ofa room that's called a socia ble when a hungry crowd calls up on a poor minister and eats him out of house and home that's ca lied ado nation party christian statesmen â€” a r e de voutly thank god for ssch men in the councils of the nation light is break ing o'er us ! hampton lives by the j prayers of god's people â€” colquitt as a layman is preaching the gospel of the son of god from sabbath to sab bath and our own governor has con . secratcd himself to the church of god and recently stood up in this city ! pleading for the spread of the gospel of the son of god let the people pray on let the tide of christianity roll on until it shall sweep dowu all j wickedness in high places until all our rulers shall rule in righteousness aud we shall be a happy people whose god is the lord â€” x c chris tian advocate a queen's conquerer mary queen of scots was confess ed by every one to be the most charm \ ing princess of her time she had a j brilliant complexion dark flashing ! eyes yellow or auburn hair exquisite i hands a fine voice a tall majestic fig j ure she was a great dancer rode well sung sweetly accompanying her self on various instruments spoke several languages and wrote both in j prose and verse by the death of her father james | v she became a queen before she was j a week old she was educated in l france and brought up in the roman catholic religion when nineteen years old she returned to scotland leaving france with great regret and feeling no love for her native country john knox the great scotch re former was thirty-seven years older than mary he was educated at glas gow university became an enthusias tic protestant and preached with tre mendous power only a few days after mary's arri val in scotland she sent for knox to come to the palace where they had a long talk in her brother's presence she accused him of attempting to de stroy her authority over her subjects and using magical arts to cany out his purpose but so completely did his eloquent defence overpower her that she sunk into a silent stupor from which she was aroused by the dinner bell putting an end to the con versation kot long after mary gave a splen did ball iu honor of the success of a brutal massacre in franco on the following sunday knox preached a sermon denouncing the atrocity and the festivities mary was told that he had spoken in a manner calculat ed to bring her under the hatred and contempt of her subjects she sent for him to come to the palace where she received him surrounded by her counselors and maids of honor and administered a long rebuke knox listened quietly and then re peated the whole of what he had said in the pulpit for the only time iu her life mary was compelled to listen to a plain fearless sermon as he left the room one of her attendants was heard to mutter he is not afraid nota great while elapsed before ha was summoned to her presence in loehleven castle for two hours she pleaded with him on behalf of the nationality of her own religious ser vice will ye allow that my subjects shall take my sword in their hands tho sword of justice is god's the reformer answered the queen was very angry but the next day she seut for him again and adopting a plan unlike any she had ever before tried attempted by every art in her power to charm aud faci nate him for my sake was the plea equally unsuccessful there was only one more interview between them she sent for him up on hearing that he censured her mar riage with lord darnley i cannot be quit of ye she cried in a passion of anger aud i vow i will be reveng ed !' she sobbed and wept but knox was as unmoved as before i am sorry to hurt you madam he said but i should be more sorry to hurt my conscience this speech infuriated her and she ordered hi in from the room on the occasion of her marriage with bothwell the supposed murder er of her first husband darnley the nation was wild with indignation some proposed banishment others imprisonment for life knox used his powerful oratory to have her tried on the plain charge of being an accom plice in the murder there is no j doubt that the ii rev eloquence of the great reformer was one ofthe might s . â€¢ . iest agencies in bringing to punish ment the queen whose beauty and whose tears could never swerve him from his honest convictions he died fifteen years before mary's execution ; and it was truly said of him when he was laid to rest iu the old churchyard of st giles edinburg here lies one who never feared the ( face of man the champion gordon and barlow their first meeting at gettysburg and their second at a washington dinner party â€¢ i'r m a waatuagum i-.-tter lou may not be aware that it was gen gordon's command which struck the flank of the eleventh corpse on the afternoon ofthe first day at get tysburg and after a short but despe rate conflict broke its line and swept it from the field in that fight gen barlow of new york commander of the first division fell dangerously and it was thought mortally wound ed he was shot directly through the body two men attempted to bear him through the shower of lead from field but one was instantly killed and gen barlow magnanimously said to the other you ean do me no good save your self if you can gordon's brigade of georgians in its wild charge swept over him ami he was found by gen gordon himself lying with upturned face iu the hot july sun nearly paralyzed and apparently dying gen gordon dismounted from bis horse gave him a drink of water from his canteen and inquired of geu barlow his name and wishes gen barlow said i shall probably live but a short time please take from my breast pocket the packet of my wife's letters aud re-ad one of them to me which was done he then asked that the others be turn up as he did not wish them to fall into other hands this gen gordon then did and then asked can i do anything else for von geueral yes replied gen bar low earnestly my wife is behind our army ; can you send a message through the lines certainly i will said gordon and he did then directing gen barlow to be borne to the shade ofa tree at the rear he rode on with his command the wife received the message and came harmlessly through both lines of battle and found her hus band who eventually recovered since gen gordon's election to the united states senate both ho and gen barlow were invited to a dinner party in washington and occupied opposite seats at the table after in troductions gen gordon said : gen barlow are you related to the officer of your name who was killed at get tysburg i am the man said liar low ; are you related to the gordon who is supposed to have killed me i am the man said gen gordou the hearty greeting which followed the touching story as related to the interested guests of gen barlow and the thrilling effect upon the company ean better be imagined than described a duel in a ball boom â€” two voting men samuel tomlinson and george mcgregor were pie-sent at a ball at cedar hill in the ball room were collected young ladies and gen tlemen of the best society among the dancers was miss burdett who was engaged to marry tomlinson both tomlinson and mcgregor claim ed miss burdett for the next dance and a quarrel arose but mcgregor triumphantly led the lady out on the floor tomlinson drew a pocket knife and attacked his rival as he and the girl were swinging corners mcgre gor also drew his knife and a terrible fight ensued both contestants were badly stabbed miss burdett fainted mcgregor is fatally cut â€” st louis j iobc democrat eliza embebt a young parisian lady resolutely discarded a gentleman to whom she was to have been marri ed becaucse be ridiculed religion having given him a gentle reproof lor some impropriety he replied that a man of the world would not be so old fashioned as lo regard god and religion eliza started but soon re coveriug herslf said from this mo ment as i discover you do not respect religion i cease to be yours â€” lÂ»ec dotes/or the ) ountj the business of taking the census must not be left solely to the radi cals those who steal votes will not hesitate to falsify the census while the grip of the republican party grows fainter and fainter and the hour of complete democratic as cendency draws near the public eied it steadily improves secession talk hints as to wliat oalfornia will do if fee c'ulneso dont go it is stated that the san francisco daily stock report the oldest finan cial paper on the pacific coast in urg | ing thata monster mass meeting bo held j in san francisco to demand of hayes : that he sign the chinese bill uses the following extraordinary language : this is a most critical time in the history of california whether there is to be bloodshed and anarchy in our fair state jpiot incendiarism aud i murder â€¢ whether our green fields are . to be blackened and our garden spot laid waste or whether rather than i incur these great evils wc shall calm ! ly in the end all other resorts haviug , failed meet and sever our connection j with the national confederation mak ing laws for our preservation and tho i preservation of our children's heri tage the events ofthe next two days may determine already such a dreadful possibility as secession from the union in the event of our failure to obtain the relief we demand from the chinese evil is broadly talked of in high circles the fast has utterly failed to understand our situation and to extend the aid and sysmpathy we have the right to expect from the sisterhood of states leading men say that we have pleaded have ex hausted arguments have cried aloud for relief but our most earnest ap peals have been treated with indignity land our sufferings have been a mock ery as a last resort wc may take advantage of the geographical lines that surround us the vast extent of soil within our boundaries the ex haustless resources of wealth that are otirs and will set up an occidental republic which if it cannot rival the old republic in its glory ofthe past will at least be a magnificent empire of white freemen whose heritage shall be preserved to their children aud their children's children forever our boys teach them self reli ance teach them to make fires teach them how to saw and split wood teach them every day dry hard practical common sense teach them how to darn stockings teach them how to eat what is set before them and be thankful ; teach them how to black their boots and take proper care of their clothing teach them how to ay no and mean it and yes and stick to it teach them to wear their working clothes like kings teach them that steady habits are better than riotous living teach them that the further one goes beyond his income the nearer he gets to the poor house ; teach them not to have anything to do with intemperate and dissolute voting men or with idle or frivolous young men don't do it â€” your enemy is at your feet and it is in your power to crush him 1 dont do it ! better is an ounce of forgiveness than a thousand tons of vengeance if hardness and . bitterness still linger in vour heart â€” * ! if actual and deep wrongs have been inflicted upon you go and look in the nearest open grave â€” you will not have to go far â€” and see what is the end for your enemy and for you go and think for a moment beside the nearest gravestone how little worthy it its for an immortal soul to l>e cher ishing the passions ofa wolf or tiger and then forgive your enemy even as you need to be forgiven ! do you know that i think mrs g a very mean woman '.'" aid mrs smith the other day that's pre cisely the opinion i heard her express of you re-joined her friend the most common error of men and women is that of looking for happi ness outside of useful work it has . never yet been found when thus sought and never will be while the world stands robt lewe who is one of the finest classical scholars in england pro nounces in favor of the study of tiie modern languages instead of the an cient when chinaman makes love to a white n-irl he doesn't rave about how his ! heart pants for her etc no he sin ' ply tells her he loves her better than j he does rat and r-hc believes him